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As a Christian Scientist, I don't go to doctors and get diagnoses.

Henry Paulson

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Henry Paulson
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: March 28
Banker
Former United States Secretary Of The Treasury
Investment Banker
Politician
Palm Beach
Florida
Christian
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China saves too much, produces too much, sells too much to Americans and consumes too little.
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In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.
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It is the policy of the federal government to use all resources at its disposal to make our financial system stronger.
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For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system.
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Payment systems are critically important for overall market stability. On a typical business day, U.S. payment and settlement systems settle transactions valued at over $13 trillion.
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The first priority is to make sure we have capital to continue to have capital available to put into the financial system. That's the first priority.
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Anticompetitive practices hurt Chinese private firms nearly as much as foreign ones.
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I've always said, 'I don't want to be irrelevant.'
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An open, competitive, and liberalized financial market can effectively allocate scarce resources in a manner that promotes stability and prosperity far better than governmental intervention.
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I'm a straightforward person. I like to be direct with people.
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A Fed loan to Lehman Brothers would not have prevented a bankruptcy.
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I think all governments engage in intelligence gathering vis-a-vis other governments.
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There is a very real danger that financial regulation will become a wolf in sheep's clothing.
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China needs a currency that reflects underlying economic fundamentals.
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There's always light at the end of the tunnel, right? It just depends on how long the tunnel is.
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I don't see (subprime mortgage market troubles) imposing a serious problem. I think it's going to be largely contained.
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Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.
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A single agency responsible for systemic risk would be accountable in a way that no regulator was in the run-up to the 2008 crisis. With access to all necessary information to monitor the markets, this regulator would have a better chance of identifying and limiting the impact of future speculative bubbles.
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The U.S. didn't save enough we borrowed a lot. There were structural imbalances in Asia with exporters, with oil exporters for a whole variety of things.
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One of the most constant aspects of American life is change - and nowhere is it more evident than in our financial markets.
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